Sundry links from around the Web:

• “Author whose books are most likely to be found in Oxfam’s secondhand charity shops” is probably not the recognition Dan Brown was hoping for
• Crayola presents kids’ author Eric Carle with a 5-foot-tall crayon named Very Hungry Caterpillar Green
• Eoin Colfer’s sixth book in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy “trilogy” is getting its own theme song
• The long-awaited memoir from Senator Ted Kennedy, who passed away last night, will be published in September
• Gizmodo test drives the Sony Reader’s new Library Finder service, which lets you check out e-books from your local (American) library for free, direct to your reader
• Lawrence Hill on To Kill a Mockingbird, and why we should focus more on Canadian stories of slavery, racism, and civil rights