TY - BOOK AU - Cross,Gary S. TI - The cute and the cool: wondrous innocence and modern American children's culture SN - 9780199868254 (ebook) : AV - HQ783 .C74 2004 U1 - 305.231 23 PY - 2004/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Children KW - United States KW - History KW - Children in popular culture KW - Toys KW - Social aspects KW - Parenting KW - Caricatures and cartoons KW - Innocence (Psychology) N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - The cute child - spunky, yet dependent, naughty but nice - is largely a 20th-century invention. In this book, Gary Cross examines how that look emerged in American popular culture and how the cute turned into the cool, seemingly its opposite, in stories and games UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195156669.001.0001 ER -