by Jim Davis
by
Jim Davis
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Australia
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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
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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.
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No
1 (1986)
 Sleepy Garfield |
No
2 (1986)
 Sneaky Garfield |
No
3 (1986)
 Adorable Garfield |
No
4 (1986)
 Clever Garfield |
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No
5 (1986)
 Hungry Garfield |
No
6 (1986)
 Lucky Garfield |
No
7 (1987)
 Situation Nermal |
No
8 (1987)
 Odie's Tail |
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No
9 (1987)
 Hams It Up |
No
10 (1987)
 Do or Diet |
No
11 (1987)
 Funny Farm Favourites |
No
12 (1987)
 Kool Kat |
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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.
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No
5 (1985)
 Two's Company |
No
11 (1985)
 Stepping Out |
No
12 (1985)
 Lives For Saturdays |
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1989
 Who's Talking? |
1989
 Here We Go Again |
1989
 Flying High |
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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.
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No
13 (1988)
 Garfield Parties On |
No
14 (1989)
 Garfield Domestic Bliss |
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1986
 Garfield : A Weekend Away |
Reed
for Kids Books
Thanks to Mark Bishop for images of No 3 and
No 4
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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
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1979
 Garfield |
1980
 Garfield the Great |
1981
 There Goes Garfield! |
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1982
 Good One, Garfield! |
1983
 Go For It, Garfield! |
192-Page Books
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1982
 The Giant Size Garfield |
1984
 The Big Book of Garfield |