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-- ''The title is cutely spelled -- that's a sure sign it's someone young,'' says Richard Stevenson, a judge for the League of Canadian Poets' youth contest who's written 14 books of poetry.

-- ''I like the way she introduces the 'He was a boy, she was a girl' line and then returns to it at the end of the song in slightly altered form,'' says Stephanie Meyer, an executive editor and publisher at Teen Ink magazine (www.teenink.com). ''I find that very effective and inventive.''

-- Lavigne also tries out inventive near-rhymes, like pairing ''nose'' with ''clothes,'' which impresses Stevenson (though he does point out that ''nose'' should be ''noses''). But Meyer thinks ''stuck up their nose[s]'' is a cliché: ''The words that she chooses aren't really unique.''
Originally posted Oct 09, 2002
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