All the best-loved fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, including "The Ugly Duckling," "Thumbelina," "The Red Shoes," "The Princess on the Pea," and "The Emperor's New Clothes," fill the pages of this beautiful leather-bound collector's edition. Also included is "The Tallow Candle" — one of the earliest stories written by Andersen, just discovered recently! With both short and long anecdotes, this is a great book of bedtime stories or for rainy-day reading. The attached bookmark ribbon ensures readers will never lose their place as they wander through the imagination of one of the most popular children's writers of all time.