The findings from our pretend-play conditions show that children infer that certain facts demonstrated in pretend play extend to kinds and do not pertain only to individuals in the pretense. This is consistent with previous studies showing that children learn general knowledge from pretend play and is also broadly consistent with findings showing that children acquire such knowledge from other kinds of fiction. Together, these findings contrast with views of pretense that emphasize how children keep representations of pretense separate from their representations of reality. Our findings are also striking given that our pretend conditions featured manipulable objects because outside the context of pretense such objects often prompt non-generic talk about the properties of particular objects . We next consider three ways in which our findings extend understanding of children’s learning from pretend play, and we then consider questions raised by the findings.