It’s noon on a steamy Saturday in July, and the modern-style, burnt-orange shard that is South Fulton’s Wolf Creek Library is squirming with joyous activity. A DJ spins Barry White as kids dance and “popcorn” in a bounce house. Volunteers dish out some 500 books from corporate donors. And all across the library, about 100 fathers chase high-spirited tots, help them through a scavenger hunt, or sit quietly with them for the main attraction: story time with an open book.

Welcome to the one-year birthday party for The Library Dads . What a year it’s been.

Before the local nonprofit was the subject of a five-minute segment on the Today show , before Al Roker called it “amazing,” before it graced the pages of Black Enterprise magazine and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution ’s UAT

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