"toy library" is correct in written English.
You can use it to refer to a space or facility where one can go to rent toys. For example, "My daughter loves visiting our local toy library every Saturday."
If you could put your support behind the global toy library movement, I'm sure it would really take off.
We found a local toy library and organised delivery and that child had toys within three hours".
I run a toy library on Saturday mornings, and I coach football for the special needs kids out of hours.
"Perhaps, in the home, a father may not feel comfortable asking questions of the health visitor," says Keir. "Here, we can advise or refer on, to health visitors, speech therapists, social workers, workers at the local toy library".
The project's chief executive, Anne Bonner, 58, explained what it offers: help for recent arrivals from eastern Europe ("the most disadvantaged ethnic group in this area at the minute"), cookery classes, a toy library, support for victims of domestic violence and "activities so that parents learn to play with their children".
Myriam, our Toy Library coordinator in Orange, New Jersey is here on this trip; she is Haitian and was living in Kenscoff when we found her years ago.
In 2010, there were 4,500 toy libraries distributed across 31 countries.
So perhaps it would be better to have toy libraries where families could borrow toys instead of buy them.
There are wide, easy nursery slopes, family lift pass discounts, exceptional children's ski schools, pushchair-friendly winter walks and toy libraries.
Community gardens, book clubs, resilience circles, neighborhood tool and toy libraries, church groups, and transition towns: all of these might go a long way in providing the social engagement that a walk with the dog currently provides.
While traditional ways of sharing, such as libraries and toy libraries, are being cut back, new types of sharing are also emerging – from advertisements for dog sharing through to land share schemes promoted by transition towns, in which people with unused gardens allow local people to tend and grow food.
