This tribute to Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” is one of the Chapel Hill Public Library’s seven trading cards.

National Banned Books Week begins on Sunday, September 21 and runs through Saturday, September 27. Stop by the Chapel Hill Public Library that week and pick up your Banned Books Week Trading Cards – a new card every day, designed by a different local artist, commemorating a book that often finds itself censored, challenged, or banned.

CHPL director Susan Brown joined WCHL’s Aaron Keck on the air Thursday.

On Friday, September 19, the library is hosting a “Sneak Peek Party” from 7-9 pm for anyone who wants to meet the artists and get an early look at the cards.

There were 73 submissions this year for the trading-card project – and you can see all 73 on display at the library that week as well.