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Candy Lawrence

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Candy Lawrence is a teacher by trade, but has been a writer and prizewinning poet since her teens. She won the Sydney Morning Herald’s 'Great Sonnet Competition 2000', receiving high praise from judge Amy Witting.

Teaching children and their carers to understand and work through their strong emotions and social challenges is her Holy Grail. Her picture books, written and illustrated since retirement gifted her time, are wonderfully real stories which children love, but they are also valuable teaching resources.

Candy is autistic and has survived cancer, loss, natural disasters and bullying. The wisdom she's drawn from adverse events informs her writing and helps her to communicate others’ experiences in her biographical works.

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Down to the Sea by Mike Belnap
“I'm sorry," said the bureaucrat blandly when I went in and blew a fuse at him, "the criteria are quite clear. He's too able to get support."

"Too ABLE?" I roared. "How do you think he got this ABLE? He achieved all this by having constant SUPPORT.”
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Down to the Sea by Mike Belnap
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Down to the Sea by Mike Belnap
"How would you handle dedicating a third of your waking hours to your child’s daily therapy sessions for over two years? “Down to the Sea” by Mike Belnap and Candy Lawrence is the poignant true story of how the Belnap family’s life was impacted by a s" Read more of this review »
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“I'm sorry," said the bureaucrat blandly when I went in and blew a fuse at him, "the criteria are quite clear. He's too able to get support."

"Too ABLE?" I roared. "How do you think he got this ABLE? He achieved all this by having constant SUPPORT.”
Candy Lawrence, Down to the Sea

“he would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whaterver a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why construcing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill, is work, whilst rolling nine-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement. There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs them considerable money; but if they were offered wages for the service that would turn it into work, then they would resign.”
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“I'm sorry," said the bureaucrat blandly when I went in and blew a fuse at him, "the criteria are quite clear. He's too able to get support."

"Too ABLE?" I roared. "How do you think he got this ABLE? He achieved all this by having constant SUPPORT.”
Candy Lawrence, Down to the Sea

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