In the current study, we further investigated how children use pretend play to learn general facts. The possibility that children might learn general factual knowledge from pretense may be counterintuitive because theories of pretend play have often emphasized that the representations that support it are kept separate or ‘‘quarantined” from representations of reality and because pretending has often been viewed as a mode that allows children to entertain counterfactual and fantastical situations . However, the possibility that children learn general facts from pretense does not conflict with these views but emphasizes that pretense also informs children’s representations of reality.