Fairyopolis

I was trying to work out what made this Fairyopolis book so special and to capture that same kind of wonder in my Emily of New Moon book.
I had a few of these sort of books when I was about 10 (Pirateology, Dragonology, Wizardology) and they were pretty special. The kind of books you keep nice on your bookshelf and every time you look at them you find something you didn't see the first time around. They're novelty books but dressed up in hard back with 'gems' on the cover, so they also fit into the gift book market.
I want my book to be less novelty, but definitely a gift product.
I know I kept all of the tiny letters and clippings safely in the pockets of these books, they're not the sort of books you just throw away. Templar's ology books were a collectable series so as soon as I knew there was another one in WHSmiths, it would go onto my Christmas list.
The books are filled with ephemera and pockets. Children read them and think they're reading genuine facts and secrets that others don't know.
This is the reading experience I want to create in EONM, so consumers would buy the special edition gift book, open it and find answers, questions, letters and secrets that all belonged to LMM.

Cilcely Mary Barker's world is pressed into the pages of Fairyopolis. It's a very personal approach and
Fairyopolis is presented in a facsimile scrapbook format.
gift book
ephemera
scrapbook of wonders
a book to treasure