Has anybody thought that if August is Pinnochio…..and going along with that, in FTL we see him as a litlle boy. Right? That is it possible and this is just a wild guess that somehow someway he got changed from a boy to a wooden doll to either fill in a space in the wardrobe and to keep Emma safe and watch over her. When they both reached to the other side…Emma’s magic somehow changed him back into a real boy. Hence, seven year old boy finds baby girl on the side of the rode. They were certainly not just going to send an infant to some strange place by herself without a contingency plan. I’ve watched enough 24 for to know that any plan is as good as their back up plans. That is why Regina thought of him as familiar. Have you ever met an older family member when you were about six or seven and have not seen them in lets say 28 years? and they say to you hey you look familiar. Forget family member just anybody? Does this sound plausible?
Maybe Pinnochio was the back up plan just in case or even like I have said before, the guardian, maybe not the author because that is too much. Hence the renegade look… badass leather, motorcycle and mysterious look. I think the book has not just one author but many. The book is maybe a collection of stories. There was probably one person that is considered the author because he put it into one volume. I think he is also the keeper of the book. To break the curse every single page needs to be in the book but hidden from Regina and Gold. August just recovered the book and restored those torn pages that were burned. Those pages could be the source of Emma’s magic. Th book is more than just a book of stories. It is also a battle manual like SunTzu’s Art of War. Once Upon a Time, The Art of Fairy Tale Warfare, written and compiled by the Fairy Tale Gang. Snow, Charming and the Gang. Yeah!! or not..just a thought…I hope someone likes my theory.