“…When books used anthropomorphized illustrations and descriptions of novel animals, preschoolers were less likely to learn novel facts about those animals (Ganea, Canfield, Simons, & Chou, 2014). Similarly, preschoolers were less likely to transfer novel problem-solving strategies (Richert & Smith, 2011;Richert, Shawber, Hoffman, & Taylor, 2009) or novel causal principles (Walker, Ganea, & Gopnik, 2012) from fantastical stories than from realistic ones.…”