After six Dr. Seuss books were pulled from publication last week, longtime Reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton identified two well-known books by 19th century American author Mark Twain that “didn’t age very well.”

During an interview with Joshua Jackson on MSNBC on Saturday, Burton pointed to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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