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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.