Artist Britta Persson interprets Emma and Lisen Adbåge's children's book

- We haven't really weighed in on any subject, says illustrator and author Lisen Adbåge to the Culture News.

- It probably comes right from the heart, soul and brain. We pour out our own lives. It is a mixture of what has been and is in us and all our ages, says illustrator and author Emma Adbåge.

In 2017, sisters Emma and Lisen Adbåge were rewarded with the Lennart Helling Prize for the book “The throat rapes the heart beats - rhyme for 0–100 years”. Now they have released the standalone sequel “People” with some 60 short verses on rhyme.

- Personally, I think that's what is the challenge, to concentrate something that I want to say in text and image as short-cut as possible. It's like the sport in the whole, says Lisen Adbåge.

- We have made it a little more difficult for ourselves. And it's fun. It's fun when it's hard, ”says Emma Adbåge.

- We also have the picture story as a bonus instrument. We can tell so much through the pictures and erase quite a lot of text, says Lisen Adbåge.

The texts are illustrated not only visually in this project but also audibly. It is artist Britta Persson who composed twelve of the sisters' poems, which have now been collected on the new album "Folk - poems and notes on persons".

The album is produced and recorded by Petter Winnberg from the band Amason. And on the song "The Finest", Britta Persson has invited artists such as Amanda Bergman, Nino Ramsby and Sibille Attar.

- I've noticed, when I've been singing to children before, that what works is straight pipes and emotions. You can't keep being difficult, you just have to convey what you want to say. Sing his song straight up and down. It is liberating when you want to make music, that you can focus on the essence of the poem, says Britta Persson.