Wings by Terry Pratchett

This third book in the Bromeliad Trilogy continues the delightful characters and unusual nome point of view. Here are a few quotes from the first half of the book:

"No character in this book is intended to resemble any living creature of whatever size on any continent, especially if they've got lawyers." From the Author's Note

"You get more air close to the ground," said Angalo. "I read that in a book. You get lots of air low down, and not much when you go up."
"Why not?" said Gurder.
"Dunno. It's frightened of heights, I guess." (23)

Staring is one of the few things frogs are good at.
Thinking isn't. It would be nice to say that the tiny frogs thought long and hard about the new flower, about life in the old flower, about the need to explore, about the possibility that the world was bigger than a pool with petals around the edge.
In fact, what they thought was: .-.-.mipmip.-.-.mipmip.-.-.mipmip.
But what they felt was too big for one flower to contain. (33)

There was a polite beeping from the Thing.
"You may be interested to know," it said, "that we've broken the sound barrier."
Masklin turned wearily to the others.
"All right, own up," he said. "Who broke it?"
"Don't look at me," said Angalo. "I didn't touch anything." (33)

"We will pass through Immigration and Customs. Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of a subversive organization?"
Silence.
"What us? Why are you asking us that?"
"It is the sort of question that gets asked. I am monitoring communications."
"Oh. Well, I don't think we have. Have we?"
"No."
"No."
"No. I didn't think we had been. What does subversive mean?"
"The question seeks to establish whether you've come here to overthrow the government of the United States."
...
"Very clever idea, though."
"What is?"
"Asking the questions when people arrive. If anyone was coming here to do some subversive overthrowing, everyone'd be down on him like a pound of bricks as sonn as he answered, 'Yes.'"
"It's a sneaky trick, isn't it," said Angalo, in an admiring tone of voice.
"No, we don't want to do any overthrowing," said Masklin to the Thing. "We just want to steal one of their going-straight-up jets. What are they called again?"
"Space shuttles."
"Right. And then we'll be off. We don't want to cause any trouble." (67-68)