Educators and librarians have a responsibility to capture the transnational border-crossing experiences of all students, including children of the African diaspora. Narratives of African diaspora border crossings disrupt stories of linear migration. These stories feature histories of displacement, trauma, and unbelonging. And yet, they embrace creative expressions of joy and criticality (Kirkland, 2020; Muhammad, 2020). Because of their history linked to forced migration, children of the African diaspora navigate land and identity displacements that disrupt linear migration patterns. They are intrigued by and interrogate their displacement in society, as demonstrated in the picturebooks outlined in this study. Reviewing the border-crossing narratives in books, this article challenges and disrupts customary transnational children's literature to interrogate how solely studying contemporary migration narratives silences and dismisses colonialism and forced migrations of African diasporic and indigenous groups (Ndubuizu, forthcoming). The children's books in this study offer insight into African diaspora borders. This article foregrounds the imagination gap, what Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (2020) defined as "the diversity crisis in children and young adult literature" (p. 5), to discuss race and displacement, trauma, tragedy, and unbelonging in African diasporic children's literature.