We might expect that children would readily learn about familiar kinds from pretense because children more readily draw inductive inferences about familiar properties and kinds than about novel ones. Alternatively, children might resist learning about familiar kinds from pretense because new information presented in pretense could compete with their existing knowledge or because children could feel that if the information is true, they should have already encountered it. When children see pretense about a novel kind of agent or object, they have little other information available for answering questions about its kind; however, if children instead see pretense about a familiar kind of agent or object, they can instead answer questions by drawing on their existing knowledge and experiences. Although these factors could also affect children’s learning about familiar kinds from other information sources, pretense (and other forms of fiction) offers children an easy way to reject new information; they can assume that it is only true in the fiction and not in real life.