by Jim Davis

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Garfield books in Australia were produced by Budget Books in standard and landscape sizes (and one weekender size), and carded cover magazine sized books by Beaumont Books. There was also a short series published by 'Reed for Kids' Books.

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Budget Books

There were at least two standard size series from Budget Books. The first was a numbered series denoted by a paw-print. The second was a numbered series that appeared to be identical to the Ravette books published in the UK. However, there were some exceptions and I have pictured these below.

Series 1
Paw-Print numbered series
No 1 (1986)

Sleepy Garfield
No 2 (1986)

Sneaky Garfield
No 3 (1986)

Adorable Garfield
No 4 (1986)

Clever Garfield
No 5 (1986)

Hungry Garfield
No 6 (1986)

Lucky Garfield
No 7 (1987)

Situation Nermal
No 8 (1987)

Odie's Tail
No 9 (1987)

Hams It Up
No 10 (1987)

Do or Diet
No 11 (1987)

Funny Farm Favourites
No 12 (1987)

Kool Kat

Series 2
The second series of Budget Books were largely reprints of the UK Ravette Books series with mostly the same covers though not necessarily in the same order and not all the books were numbered. However there are at least two titles (No 11 and No 12) which were not included in the UK range.
No 5 (1985)

Two's Company
No 11 (1985)

Stepping Out
No 12 (1985)

Lives For Saturdays
1989

Who's Talking?
1989

Here We Go Again
1989

Flying High

The longer landscape series were reprints of the UK Ravette Longer Landscape Series using exactly the same covers. However, there were at least two extra titles produced in Australia... "Domestic Bliss" numbered as No 14 whilst "Parties On" is un-numbered but was published between No 12 and No 14 so assumed to be No 13. The UK Series went to 13 books with the 13th being unique to the UK. Nos 2 to 5 of the Australian books were in a different order to the UK ones, then matched the order from No 6 to 12.

Longer Landscapes
No 13 (1988)

Garfield Parties On
No 14 (1989)

Garfield Domestic Bliss

Weekender
1986

Garfield : A Weekend Away

Reed for Kids Books
Thanks to Mark Bishop for images of No 3 and No 4

No 1 (1995)

Are We Having Fun Yet?
No 2 (1995)

The Language of Love
No 3 (?)

Life's a Party
No 4 (?)

This One's For You

Beaumont Books
64-Page Books

1979

Garfield
1980

Garfield the Great
1981

There Goes Garfield!
1982

Good One, Garfield!
1983

Go For It, Garfield!

192-Page Books

1982

The Giant Size Garfield
1984

The Big Book of Garfield