Pannikin & Pinta

When Lake Eyre, created by a great flood in the central Australian desert, begins to dry up, Pinta, the pelican, leads her children Preen, Plume, and Pannikin on the long and difficult journey to the coast.
 When a flood fills the desert basin of Lake Eyre in Central Australia, pelicans flock to live there. But as the lake begins to dry up again, the pelicans must fly across the desert to the southern coast, in order to survive. This is the story of one family of pelicans who have to make that long, hard journey. Text portrays the physical characteristics, habitats and behaviour of pelicans.