David Hyde Costello has worked as a scenic designer for motion pictures and the stage. He is the author/illustrator of Here They Come! (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and I Can Help (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and Little Pig Joins the Band. He is also the illustrator of the Ezra Jack Keats Honor Book, A Crow of His Own. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.