So Jung Kim is an Assistant Professor of Literacy/Early Childhood Education in the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Texas at El Paso. She earned her doctoral degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She maintains active interest in the areas of multicultural literature, literacy instruction for young diverse learners, early critical literacy, and new literacies. Her papers have been published in journals including the Journal of Early Childhood Research , the International Journal of Early Childhood Learning , and the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy .