Once asked why he built all of the enormous dinosaur sculptures, the typically quiet sculptor responded, ""Because people like them"." The huge crowds who flocked to his exhibits demonstrated their immense popularity. Grinning Jim Gary birds, critters, and dinosaurs have been featured in articles and on the covers of magazines from "Smithsonian" and "Sculpture Review" (publication of the National Sculpture Society) [https://web.archive.org/web/20070811215522/http://www.nationalsculpture.org/nss/publications/sculpt_review.asp to "National Geographic World" (now called, "National Geographic Kids") and "Time". His work has been featured in textbooks, encyclopedias, educational videos, newspapers, on the Internet, and on television shows around the world. In January 2006, the "Los Angeles Times" reported that "one of his works, "Stegosaurus", is included in "Alphabet Animals", a children's book by Charles Sullivan that includes depictions of animals by John James Audubon, Alexander Calder, and Marc Chagall." All of the letters of the alphabet were taught using works of fine art through illustrations or professional photographs of artworks. "S" was taught with Gary's green dinosaur, "Stegosaurus".