This book is available in Taiwan at www.books.com.tw. If your Chinese is limited it could be tough to get it delivered as Books.com.tw is an online bookstore.

The Lady in Painting is a well-known chinese folktale retold here within the limits of an elementary 300 character vocabulary. It has Yale and Pinyin romanization with Traditional characters. It’s an excellent text for those beginning to learn Chinese. As there really aren’t a huge amount of decent reading resources for beginners I think it’s worth a look. Although it is expensive. The version pictured (2008） has a CD and retails at NT$1350. There is another version (1983) without a CD for NT$673.

Yale Press has some excerpts of the 1983 version available for download:

Read the Foreword in PDF (1 page)
Read the Character Introduction and Preface in PDF (13 pages)
Read an excerpt from the book in PDF (10 pages)

Some of the characters, as my teacher pointed out, are written in a style not really used today but I still found the excerpts great to read. I’m not sure but the characters may have been updated in the 2008 version.

If you have read the 2008 version, please feel free to leave a comment.