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Trent Willmon's mom, Billie Willmon Jenkin, has published a children's book. And who do you suppose she got to narrate it? She wrote and illustrated The Knock-Kneed Cowboy: A Tale of Being "Just Right" ...  Just As We Are back when her boys were little. Trent says the story is just something his mom made up for his brother and him. "Casey is a knock-kneed cowboy who wants to be bow-legged like all his peers. When the book starts out, you think it's just for elementary-school kids. But as you read on, you realize it's a parable about all of us who feel different," he said. The singer-songwriter lends his rich vocals to the three-disc set, playing the part of a fifth-grade girl, a grandpa and a fairy god-frog. Meanwhile, his mom's idea was to help kids with self-acceptance. "I was determined that kids know that they don't have to let others' ideas about them become their own," she said.