100 years ago today, one of the greatest writers of children’s books was born. The Gloriumptious Worlds of Roald Dahl was released last month by Carlton Books, to celebrate the many creations of this rather wonderful author.
This wonderful 59 page hardback book is a must for any Roald Dahl fan, and will be much treasured in this household. The Gloriumptious Worlds of Roald Dahl has been authorised by the Roald Dahl Estate and contains Quentin Blake’s illustrations throughout.
It’s a book crammed full of information relating to the best-loved Roald Dahl books and their characters. Monkey received The Enormous Crocodile and The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me for his birthday, so he was eager to check up on those. With lovely snippets from the book, Monkey has been riveted to this book since it arrived. Of course, I’m still the one doing the reading, but the love is there, and that’s to be nurtured and encouraged.
Who doesn’t love The Twits, it’s one of the first audio books that we tried and it always has Monkey in fits of laughter. What little boy won’t enjoy reading about what could possibly be hiding in a beard?
We’ve had so much looking through The Gloriumptious Worlds of Roald Dahl, it’s been a great way of introducing Monkey to some of my own favourite Roald Dahl stories too. From James and the Giant Peach through to my all time favourite Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, we’ve been looking at all these titles with glee.
As children my brother was obsessed with Oompa-Loompas and the book has given Monkey an introduction to Loompaland, Willy Wonka and the various rooms contained within his factory. This is a book to keep, and treasure, a book to encourage reading and bring back memories of favourite reads. I love it, and I know as my son gets to grips with Roald Dahl he will love it for years to come. Within the pages of The Gloriumptious Worlds of Roald Dahl we get treated to unknown facts and background stories behind some of his favourite titles.
For £16.99 this is the sort of book that would be welcome on any bookshelf. I’ve included my Amazon Affiliate link below as it’s currently on offer at £6.99 – an absolute bargain.
disclosure: we were sent the item mentioned in exchange for an honest review
To celebrate the fact that today celebrates 100 years since Roald Dahl’s birth, I’ve teamed up with Carlton Books to offer one lucky reader the chance to win this lovely book for themselves. Complete the Gleam form below if you’d like this chance – good luck!
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I have just recently read all of the Roald Dahl books again with my son. They really are so good. His favourite is the BFG and he loved the movie. I would have to say my favourite is Matilda, as she is such a strong and courageous little girl.
I loved Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – so brilliant that an impoverished child wins and I personally love the strangeness and darkish side of Willy Wonka. The only one I don’t like is James and the Giant Peach – but everybody to their own likes/dislikes
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is my favourite. Loved as a child and now my kids love reading the book and watching the film
I loved Esio Trot. I just found it to be utterly delightful.
I have always loved the BFG and that book is loved by my four children too! He is such a friendly gieant and I love the fact that he is jumbly and speaks of ‘snozcumbers!
Fantastic Mr Fox, loved it as a kid. Mr Fox using his wits to survive, and eating chickens every day!
I’ve always loved Matilda, always felt just like here and found her and Jenny comforting characters x 🙂
Charlie and the chocolate factory always loved it
Matilda, she is just like my daughter!
The one I can read over and over again…even now is The BFG. I love the scene setting, the language, the funny speak of the BFG and the storyline when the Queen gets involved.
I have always liked the Witches, brilliant book! the movie used to scare me so much!
Matilda as I love her magic powers and how she has such a happy ending!
Such a good way to introduce kids to Roald Dahl. I’ve just gone and bought it using your link 🙂
Charlie and the chocolate factory
Shows that being nice gets you want you want
the twits it makes me and my boys laugh! x
Charlie and chocolate factory as always seemed magical with a happy ending.
Charlie and the chocolate factory although there are so many fantastic stories to choose from.
The Twits; I love the message of it.
Charlie and the chocolate factory was the first book I read and I was hook, it was so magical I wanted to visited the chocolate factory and remember wishing that it was real, imagine the fun of trying to find that golden ticket…Dahl is an amazing writer!
I love The Twits as we did a play at school once and I loved it, I was the narrator and my twin sister was Mrs Twit, my Mum bought us jelly worms for the worms scene!
wow so many to choose from. I love George’s Marvellous medicine. Just creative, inventive and fun x
Charlie and the Chocolate factory as its heartwarming to see Charlie succeed and the characters are great.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – probably because it was the one I read as a child
Mine has to be the BFG can never get bored of it 🙂
the twits its so funny
The twits the first proper paperback book I read still makes me laugh today. However they are all classics and fabulous. The best children’s author ever
I love Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as it brings back lovely memories from my childhood
The Twits as I just love the humour in it
Fantastic Mr Fox as we love his cunning ways 🙂
I enjoyed reading Boy when I was young, finding out about what Roald Dahl got up to when he was a boy.
Witches
charlie and the chocolate factory because it is such a good storyline
my favourite Roald Dahl books are Matilda and the Witches
My favourite personally has to be Charlie and the chocolate factory as it’s such a funny book even though i’ve read it numerous times the story never gets old.
i always loved the bfg because he is so kind!
I think Matilda. The issues in it were actually a little ahead of their time and really relevant today, done with really good humour. A lovely read.
I loved (still love) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I just thought the whole idea was incredibly magical
I like Esio Trot because it made me laugh.
It’s hard to choose. I enjoyed Danny champion of the world as a child, it just stands out, I always found it funny
Love Matilda and how she triumphs despite her rubbish upbringing.
I loved Matilda 🙂 one of my favourite childhood stories
george’s marvellous medicine ever since i watched rick mayall read it on jackanory he made the book come to life and so much fun
I liked James & the giant peach, I loved the way it went from ‘people’ to ‘characters’.
The twits because it is funny
The BFG !! Well, who doesn’t love that story ? 🙂 such a wonderful, heart-warming tale!
Has to be Matilda
The Enormous Crocodile is our favourite as it’s the first my kids and I read
i love the BFG love how a giant could be so gentle
I loved all Roald Dahl books as a child but my favourite is Fantastic Mr Fox. It stands out because it was the first story book I picked and was bought by my Dad before that it had always been library books. I read it over and over again
The twits funny
the Twits – it’s so funny x
I like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory because it’s cool.
Boy, I enjoyed reading about Roald Dahl himself it was so interesting, my second fave was The Withes.
Charlie and the chocolate factory is my favourite as its such a cool story.
The twits as it always made me smile as a kid
My favourite is the BFG it is such a great story I read it so many times as a child.
There’s so many great characters to choose from but I think I’d pick out ‘Matilda’ as my favourite as I thinks she’s Roald Dahl’s best ‘lead’ female character…although I love his wicked depiction of the very spoilt ‘Veruca Salt’ in ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’.
We love Matilda because she’s strong and interesting
the BFG great read x
I always loved George’s Marvellous Medicine. I found it really funny and loved to read about George’s experiments.
Matilda as I love all her magic
the witches as it’s so dark
BFG it’s so witty and so clever
matilda, when I was little id wish I had her powers
Love the feisty Matilda 🙂
George’s marvellous medicine as his Nan was so mean to him she almost deserved what she got.
I love the twits just found it very funny
as a family of 6 i have to say we have loved lots of roald dahl but as well as reading the books we have also seen lots of films the best by far is our family favourite called matilda.we watch this movie over and over for many years and still enjoy it the best
Georges marvellous medicine – it’s just brilliant. I would make my own potions when little after reading it
My favourite was always George’s marvellous medicine, I loved all the reasons he had for putting each ingredient in plus I really liked the thought of making your grandma grow to mamouth sizes
I like Charlie and the chocolate factory – mainly as I would love a chocolate factory like that!
I love George’s Marvelous Medicine as I loved the idea of mixing everything into a potion!
Matilda because the story is sad but ends happily. Matilda is so clever
My favourite is Matilda because she’s an extraordinary child with an incredible talent for learning despite being hampered by uncaring parents.
Charlie and the chocolate factory
Fantastic Mr Fox. I shared it with my children.
James and the giant peach. I love all the characters and how wonderfully vile he makes the aunts
The witches because I was hooked from cover to cover and some chapters made the hair stand up on the back of my neck.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We read it before watching the films and we have read it again since. It’s just a fantastic story for kids and adults.
I love Charlie and the Chocolate factory – the characters are a perfect mix
The Twits because it always made me laugh as a kid 🙂
Growing up my favourites were Matilda; George’s Marvellous Medicine; Boy and The BFG. I think my overall favourite must be Matilda. I so wanted to be her. A clever girl who had the most amazing teacher, they had such a lovely relationship and helped each other become happier. Love it 🙂
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory as it just creates such a magical world. Of chocolate!
Has to to be “the twits” it does make me laugh
Danny the champion of the world because i just loved it so much as a kid, i found the whole story fascinating
This is so hard as I love them all probably best one has to be Matilda. I love the magic and sweet story behind it of her and Miss Honey.
Love so many. Hard to choose tbh. But i suppose if i had to it would be Matilda. Its just a great story and appeals to all ages
Matilda is my favourite book- I loved reading it to my daughter
I love The Witches – it used to make me laugh so much
BFG just enjoy it
the twits because I love mr twits manky beard!
I love Matilda because she is so like me – a total bookworm – but my parents were a lot better obviously
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, it’s a great read.
Matilda – I always wished I could do magic when I was little.
Charlie and the chocolate factory.
I can still read that as an adult
my favourite is the twits, i grew up loving it, love how descriptive it is and how it gets your imagination going.
matilda – the poor girl makes life such fun
The Twits, brings back so many happy memories of giggling at it as a child and it’s now a favourite of my own children
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – such a heart warming tale and I love Willy Wonka!
Charlie and the chocolate factory because I love stories about chocolate!
love Charlie and the chocolate factory, such great colourful character and storyline!
Charlie and the Chocolate factory as its the only one I have read and watched the film
The Twits – it was horrid but wonderful all at once
I always loved Matitlda. I was a bookworm as a child and identified with that side of her
I love Charlie & the Chocolate Factory because I love the different children in it.
Charlie and the chocolate factory.. It was the first book I read
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – I loved it as a child and still do now as I share it with my children. It just really captured my imagination and made me laugh as the story unfolds and the good guy comes out on top!
George’s Marvellous Medicine as George is so naughty – it just makes me laugh.
I’ve always loved The Witches as it was so suspenseful and creepy to read as a child!
James and the giant peach, i love the magic in the whole book but i love his happy ending <3
George’s Marvellous Medicine – the concoction always fascinated me and it seemed so wicked when I was a child.
When I was younger I was always nervous of my nan and felt she was quite mean (she never did get on with children)
I used to read Georges marvellous medicine and loved it as it reminded me of my nan (sounds evil LOL)
Matilda it’s such a magical and touching story that really is timeless
We love Chrlie and the Chocoate factory because there is loads oc chocolate and sweeties involed, a childs dream xxx
Matilda has to be my favourite, it was the first one I read, I fell in love with it and still have the same copy i got when i was 8 years old 🙂
i love matilda, i always wanted powers like she had =) x
BFG – I loved the book and film and I remember watching it as a kid over and over again
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Charlie Bucket may be poor but he shows children the right way to be,Then you appreciate what a good person he is when you meet the other characters in the book.
I love The Witches 😀
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Nice that Charlie wins the prize, a great opportunity for him. I’d love a tour of a Chocolate Factory, many people would appreciate such a prize / opportunity. Colourful adventure for Charlie.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory because it is so different
It has to be The Witches, I love it because I think its the scariest book of his that I have read.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is our favourite, so many fabulous characters but mainly it’s our dream to win a trip to a chocolate factory
Love Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – So many great characters
I love George’s Marvellous Medicine, mainly because of Rik Mayall’s performance on Jackanory.
I love BFG; the words are amazingly funny, and where they drink lemonade and float… so funny.
I loved Matilda. A lovely courageous girl, good fun to read
the twits
Charlie and the chocolate factory, it’s just really fun 🙂
The Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was always a favourite because a life time supply of chocolate would be wonderful.
I love the giraffe, the pelly and me – because I love the pelly and how he keeps the water in his beak!
My favorite book is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Brilliant
My favourite is Danny the Champion of the World because I remember having it read to us at primary school, and the teacher always left us with a cliffhanger, it made it so exciting!
Matilda, I love a strong female character!
I love Matilda as she’s a lovely little girl and it’s a great story 🙂
George’s Marvelous Medicine. It made me want to make potions to change people.
Charlie and the chocolate factory film, good ending, we haven’t read the book yet
Loved Charlie and the chocolate factory as a child my little boy loves it to x
I love Matilda as I think it was one of the very first stories I read with my daughter that I too loved as a child.
Matilda, I always tried to move things with my mind like her
Matilda was my favourite as a little girl and i loved the film too!
i loved the magical feeling that james and the giant peach game me
It’s got to be The Twits because it has my grandchildren in stitches when I read it to them.
I love Esio Trot .. I love tortoises and it is a wonderful story of finding love.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as I love chocolate!!
My favourite character has to be Fantastic Mr Fox as it was just my favourite story as a child. My daughter absolutely loves Matilda.
Charlie and the Chocolate factory is my all time favourite. Great characters, and I just love the idea of a chocolate factory!
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, it was read to us by my favourite teacher in Primary school and where my love of Roald Dahl books began
i love the twits takes me right back to my childhood reading it
The BFG as it reminds me of my childhood, reading it when I got home from school.
I loved Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , always made me hungry and want to eat lots more chocolate
Wow so many favourites! I love The Twits though its hilarious and all my munchkins enjoy it too 🙂
Matilda – love the storyline and characters.
Charlie and the Chocolate factory, my mum, brother and I read it together, brings back such happy memories.
Has to be Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The BFG – it’s a really heartwarming story as well as being a lot of fun
So hard to choose, but Matilda was the one that I really loved to read over and over again when I was younger.
Matilda is my favourite Roald Dahl book because its so heartwarming
The Witches as I remember having it read to me in school
I loved The Witches, spooky and funny all at the same time.
The twits bevause my teacher read it to us and did the voices for the twits which made it even better.
I like Matilda she is such a great little girl. We are currently reading it at bedtime just now.
I love The Twits – I’m married to a total prankster so can completely identify with the tit-for-tat jokes, if on a much lesser scale! 🙂
Has to be Charlie and the Chocolate Factory such a good lesson for children to learn 😀
I like Charlie & the Chocolate Factory as it reminds me of my childhood.
I like the BFG
The Witches – I liked to be scared by stories when I was a child!
Fantastic mr fox – as I just love the 3 farmers – specially the cider one lol x
I love George’s Marvellous Medecine because I quite like the idea of cooking up potions.
Matilda, such a special little girl that didn’t let anything stand in her way
My favourite Roald Dahl book is George’s Marvellous Medicine because I was always absolutely fascinated by science and creating mixtures and I love the idea of mixing up lots of things to create a medicine!
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory – because all those children are totally obnoxious and get their just desserts
There are so many I love! Going to pick the Witches though
The BFG ! I love putting on the BFG voices when reading to my son LOL!
I love Matilda – she was my hero when I was younger 🙂
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – chocolicious story line
I loved The Witches
I most enjoyed reading Matilda to the children as they could relate to her with a little imagination.
Charlie’s grandparents, I love how they stay in bed all day…. just bliss!!
Fantastic Mr Fox is my favourite.
I could watch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory forever! The image of a chocolate river and sweet trees and so much more is inspiring and awesome. And what a great idea, the Oompa Lumpas.
I love Matilda as always makes me laugh
Matilda, fab story line, fab characters and a happy ending 🙂 what more could you want
Bfg because I think the story is lovely
i like matilda as shes a great imagination
Matilda – she always reminded me of me!
The Witches, it is scary and a great kids story
Matilda because I am a bookworm
The Witches because it draws you into the plot
Matilda was always my favourite, great story 🙂
I love Matilda because it encouraged me to read when I was younger!
Matilda. But they are all great books xx
I’ve always loved Matilda she loved books as much as I do
Matilda she reminded me or me a little bookworm
Charlie and the chocolate factory because I love chocolate and it showed that anything is possible …if Charlie could win a golden ticket then so can I !
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory – how fantastic to open up something and see a golden ‘You Win’ ticket!