Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection. (Danish: Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. Første Samling.) is a collection of nine fairy tales published in a series of three installments by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen, Denmark between May 1835 and April 1837, and represent Andersen's first venture into the fairy tale genre.

The first installment of sixty-one unbound pages is published May 8, 1835, and contains "The Tinderbox", "Little Claus and Big Claus", "The Princess and the Pea" and "Little Ida's Flowers".

The first three tales are based on folktales Andersen had heard in his childhood while the last tale is completely Andersen's invention and created for Ida Thiele, the daughter of Andersen's early benefactor, the folklorist Just Matthias Thiele.

Reitzel paid Andersen thirty rixdollars for the manuscript, and the booklet is priced at twenty-four shillings.

The second booklet is published on December 16, 1835, and contains "Thumbelina", "The Naughty Boy" and "The Traveling Companion".

"Thumbelina" is completely Andersen's invention, though inspired by "Tom Thumb" and other stories of miniature people

"The Naughty Boy" is based on a poem by Anacreon about Cupid, and "The Traveling Companion" is a ghost story with which Andersen had experimented in 1830.