Lucy Knisley is doing comic-style illustrations of The Giver. io9 points out in a post highlighting them that Lois Lowry's dystopian teen novel has made it into graphic novel form, but I've got another question. How has this never turned into a movie? IMDb lists an adaptation for next year, and Walden Media is theoretically working on an adaptation (something IMDb doesn't confirm), but given the paucity of details, it seems extremely unlikely.
The inexplicable delay makes no sense. The Giver is a gorgeous, dramatic book that illustrates the principles of longing and denial far better than Twlight does, and with imbues those themes with far more significance than that series ever did (and in SO many fewer words). The central mystery of the book emerges slowly and is never really solved—clearly, the authority that runs the community at the center of the novel kills people who don't fit its design, but are they a world government? An enclave set aside from a society they've deemed corrupt? A movie could explore those questions further, even if it doesn't pose a definitive answer or change the ambiguity of the novel's ending.
And an adaptation would have an enormous built-in audience. The Giver is in huge circulation in schools and book clubs, and even if it lacks a Twihard-like fanbase, it would tap both nostalgia in readers like me who discovered the book on our own, and at least familiarity in audiences who tend to like remakes. No matter how much you love something, I understand the rational behind demanding a business case for producing commercial art. The Giver's got one. And it could be a Never Let Me Go for a tween set that could use an artistic kick in the pants.