Reddit reviews Cracking Animation: The Aardman Book of 3-D Animation (Third Edition)

I would highly recommend these books:

Cracking Animation by Aardman

and

Special Effects by Richard Rickett

The Aardman deals specifically with stop-motion animation and has lots of information about each part of the process. It is not really a how to manual per se, but offers a lot of useful information which will help you learn how things are done.

The second book deals will the entire scope of Hollywood special effects, but has a very cool section on miniatures and tons of techniques of how you can film them to make them look like they are a part of the scene.

You may also research building scale models in general. There is a lot of information not specifically relating to stop-motion that could be put to good use. I've found cool sites by architects, model train hobbyists, dollhouse makers which helped me a lot as they all are quite experienced in building scale models.

Hope this helps. Let me know if you find any cool resources. I'd love to check them out.

Both of the following books are pretty good at breaking down the whole process, not just the craft part of it.

Cracking Animation

Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation